#177 Documentation error re/ keywords in binary files.

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: jeffrey....@gmail.com

In this chapter
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.props.special.keywords.html

it states that "Subversion will only perform keyword substitution on files that it considers to be human-readable—this is, files which don't carry an svn:mime-type property whose value indicates otherwise."  This is not true.  I have successfully done (fixed width) keyword substitution on binary files in svn 1.6.x.

Moreover, the perl script in question specifically states that it does support fixed width keyword substitutions in binary files.
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/contrib/hook-scripts/svn-keyword-check.pl

Regards,
Jeff

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: cmpilato

You are completely correct.  Fix on trunk:
   Sending        book/ch03-advanced-topics.xml
   Transmitting file data .
   Committed [r4296].

Backported to 1.7/en branch:
   Sending        .
   Sending        book/ch03-advanced-topics.xml
   Transmitting file data .
   Committed [r4297].

And backported to 1.6/en branch:
   Sending        .
   Sending        book/ch03-advanced-topics.xml
   Transmitting file data .
   Committed [r4298].

Labels: Milestone-en-1.6
Status: Fixed